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I'm back to give more feedback on gender in Sims 4.
A lot of people seem to have the idea that if you pick the "opposite" frame to rig it automatically means that the sim is trans, and if you pick the "same" frame to rig it automatically means that the sim is cis. (Side-note: Rig is the base body (female and male), frame is the slight alteration of the body (feminine and masculine))
The thing is that this is a very stereotypical view on gender and body types, and I think a lot of it has to do with the naming of the frames. I think the frames should be called something else than feminine and masculine. I'm not native in English, so I'm not sure what the perfect words would be, but maybe something like soft and hard, or smooth and rough, idk, but something that does not imply that cis women can't have "hard" features, trans women can't have "soft" features, cis men can't have "soft" features, and trans men can't have a "hard" features. Also, maybe it shouldn't be called frame but rather something like "features", if the names of the frames were changed.
I have seen so many people assuming that Lia Hauata is trans only because she has the masculine frame. Maybe she is trans, maybe she's non-binary, but we don't know that. To directly assume that she is trans only because she has the masculine frame implies that cis women can't have rougher features, which isn't true.
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